Department of Family Medicine

HISTORY

Department of Family
Medicine was founded by Dr. Fatih Özcan, MD, Family Medicine specialist, at
Celal Bayar University School of Medicine in 1994. In 1997, after the Dr. Fatih
Özcan’s leaving from the university, Dr. Gönül Dinç, MD has carried out
Chairman of the Department until 2008. After 2008, the Chairman of the
Department was conducted by Dr. Ertuğrul Tatlısumak MD, specialist in Family
Medicine and Anatomy, who is a lecturer of Anatomy Department. Since December,
2014, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Ahmet Var has assumed the
Chairman of the Family Medicine Department. In 2014, Hüseyin Elbi MD began his
career in Family Medicine Department as a specialist staff. Dr. Fatih Özcan
returned to the university in the fall of 2015, as a lecturer in the
Department.

DESCRIPTION AND
PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Family Medicine is a
unique academic medical discipline which is evidence-based. Family medicine; to
contribute the health of individuals, family and community; in all stages of life
such as the childhood, adolescence, adulthood and elderly continually; without
any discrimination such as illness, sex, symptoms for health protection and the
improvement. Family medicine directs to treatment, follow and rehabilitation of
all health problems that may be encountered in primary care. Family medicine,
in harmony with contemporary medical ethics principles, is a specialty that
requires skills and attitudes at the necessary information to provide quality
health care.

In line with the principles
of this discipline, Family Physicians, clinically practical training, are the
primary care-oriented medical specialists. Family Physicians are responsible
for providing comprehensive and continuous health services to individuals. In
Family Medicine, individuals are followed throughout their lives, starting from
the prenatal period, which lasted until death. Thus, continuity of health
services provided to individuals.

The discipline of
Family Medicine, agrees that it is more broadly responsible to society, in
addition to individual health services. Health problems are handled as a
physical, mental, social and cultural aspects. They are evaluated
simultaneously by the family physician based on all these dimensions and
appropriate solutions produced.